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Watch a Lightning Storm From Space

Earlier this week, British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted this video while aboard the International Space Station. It captures a lightning storm as the state travels across North America toward Russia. Watch it below:

It's amazing to think that we live in a time when an astronaut can post a time-lapse video to Twitter and it's suddenly available to the whole world. If you'd like to learn more about some of the amazing new technologies heading to space, be sure to watch Telescope, premiering February 20 on the Discovery Channel. Telescope chronicles the construction of the James Webb Space Telescope -- a massive instrument 100 times stronger than the Hubble Space Telescope.